Then-FBI Director James B. Comey testifies on May 3 on Capitol Hill. (Jenny Starrs/The Washington Post)White House staffers have signaled they will try to portray Comey as an unreliable witness. [Comey made detailed notes after meeting with Trump]In a January dinner meeting, the president asked Comey to pledge loyalty to him but the director demurred, according to these associates, former colleagues of Comey. Comey’s testimony then was “riveting,” Schmaler said — a rare moment when lawmakers essentially stopped talking and just let a witness speak for 20 minutes straight. A day before Comey’s testimony, Rosenstein will face his own grilling, in his first public testimony since he penned a controversial memo that laid out a public case for firing Comey.

Source: Washington Post June 06, 2017 21:30 UTC